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Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
Gabby Villacis with Modern Day Real Estate shows the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessGabby Villacis with Modern Day Real Estate shows the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and
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The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
A rebuilt brick barbeque outside the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessA rebuilt brick barbeque outside the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a
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The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
Gabby Villacis with Modern Day Real Estate shows the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessGabby Villacis with Modern Day Real Estate shows the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and
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The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
Gabby Villacis with Modern Day Real Estate shows the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessGabby Villacis with Modern Day Real Estate shows the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and
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Upstairs bedrooms at the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessUpstairs bedrooms at the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage
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Custom kitchen cabinetry in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessCustom kitchen cabinetry in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square
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One of two bathrooms in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessOne of two bathrooms in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square
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The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
Downstairs bedrooms in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessDownstairs bedrooms in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square
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The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
Upstairs bedrooms at the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessUpstairs bedrooms at the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage
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One of two bathrooms in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessOne of two bathrooms in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square
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The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
Downstairs bedrooms in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessDownstairs bedrooms in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square
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One of two bathrooms in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
lessOne of two bathrooms in the home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square
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The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
The home at 4 Chelene Road for sale at $469,000 Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Norwalk, Conn. The newly renovated cape has all new mechanicals, new kitchen and baths and has a square footage of 1700 feet.
Photo: Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
House-flippers revive Cape-style home in Norwalk
NORWALK — When house-flippers Leslie and Jay Vincent came across the Cape-style home at 4 Chelene Road last summer, the house was in need of major tender loving care.
The house was a foreclosure, with water seeping inside the home and paint chipping away on the outside. The owners also left everything behind.
“It was a mess. Absolutely a total disaster,” Leslie Vincent said. “We gutted the house, basically.”
The Vincents bought the house for $216,000 and spent the last six months reviving it. And now, the 1,700-square-foot home has taken on a new life.
Apart from the foundation, almost everything else in the house is new. This includes all of the siding, railings, windows, appliances, plumbing and electrical, along with the furnace, air conditioner, electric water heater, asphalt driveway, roof with architectural shingles and mint-colored front door.
The Vincents also added onto the home by expanding the kitchen and dining space on the first floor and building a new bedroom and bathroom upstairs.
The house is the most extensive project they’ve have taken on so far, they said, and is their 23rd flip since they left the corporate world. They began flipping houses full time in 2012, buying foreclosed homes in Fairfield County, renovating them and relisting them for sale.
“With previous homes, we would go in and kind of clean up, paint, change the bathrooms and kitchens and be done with it,” Leslie Vincent said. “But this was truly a major overhaul.”
“It’s different than ‘Flip or Flop’ on TV,” Jay Vincent added. “It’s much different. Things come up but we got to roll with the punches. And we finished the project and we’re very proud of it.”
The house at 4 Chelene Road also happens to be the first one they’ve completed in Norwalk, where Jay Vincent is from.
They haven’t seen the finished home yet, since they live in Florida. While the Vincents are usually more hands-on with their flips, they hired architect Joe Rousseau, construction director Roberto Harp and his foreman Dave Detoro to take the lead on this much bigger project.
From what they’ve told them and what they’ve seen through FaceTime, they are satisfied with the outcome.
“It turned out beyond our expectations and have to give kudos also to our crew, American Home Builders, who took this project toward the end and really brought it to fruition,” Leslie Vincent said.
The home is now listed for sale at $469,000, through Daniel and Gabby Villacis of Modern Day Real Estate.
Gabby Villacis said neighbors and prospective buyers have taken notice of the home’s improvements during its open house.
“They were so impressed with the house,” Gabby Villacis said “I had the open house the first weekend, and the entire neighborhood came.”
The home has been on the market since April and has generated a lot of interest since then.
The Vincents hope the home goes to first-time buyers.
“It’s a nice feeling to put people in a house that they’re going to enjoy and we had a hand in doing it,” Jay Vincent said. “We gave a nice house at a good price, and they’re going to enjoy it with their family.”
“We’re creating value for the neighborhood as well,” Leslie Vincent added. “For us to come in and make it the way it looks now is rewarding.”
skim@hearstmediact.com; 203-842-2568; @stephaniehnkim
https://www.thehour.com/realestate/article/House-flippers-revive-Cape-style-home-in-Norwalk-12867596.php
